U16 and U19 basketball teams got their All Ireland League campaigns off to a nice start with wins on the road against St.Mary's Drogheda. The U16 team had a comfortable victory with a fine team performance with Michael Lavery knocking down 11 points. The U19 team had to show great resilience in an exciting encounter to come from behind and grind out a narrow 2 point win. Niall McGinnity and Peter Henvey stepped up from the U16 team to help the senior students. Niall McKeown led the scoring with 13 points and, in conjunction with Josh Briers and Niall McGinnity they played excellent interior defence. Sean Quinn knocked down two big shots down the stretch a clutch free throw from Corey Ryan Darragh sealed the contest.